I've always wondered this. I dont think it should be required, hell no job at Kroger should require a degree. Any trained monkey could do every job Kroger has to offer.
I've always wondered this. I dont think it should be required, hell no job at Kroger should require a degree. Any trained monkey could do every job Kroger has to offer.
all the monkeys are at the warehouses or headquarters
I've always wondered this. I dont think it should be required, hell no job at Kroger should require a degree. Any trained monkey could do every job Kroger has to offer.
It would not hurt if you did but do not have to have a degree to be a CO-manager. Most of the Co`s that I have dealt with , over the last number of years, have all been long term kroger employees that are stupid enough to want to pursue it . I know of one Dallas KMA operations person that was promoted and sent to the Phoenix area recently. He has no college degree but had started as a meat clerk and worked his was up the chain.
Honestly the cost of the degree isn't worth that of what a comanager is worth. I make more than a comanager on the basis of pay vs hours. If you want to get a degree it can help in the future. I would love to take Business Administration so I can open my own business someday.
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well i personally take a different view on this topic...
and here it is. while you do not have to hold a degree to be in management at kroger, i feel that this is the root of many of the problems that run deep into kroger's operation. as a previous poster mentioned , monkeys can run the place. sure they can but what do you get - monkey business.
with a little bit of formal class room schooling, you can get the basic perspective on how things should be. "management" (believe it or not) IS a science. it really isn't something that can be learned on the streets. management runs into every aspect of life. you manage yourself and your family. how is that going? for a lot of people it isn't going too well.
one of the biggest flaws of kroger management (and this runs into really any large retail endeavor) is interpersonal managerial skills. sure and monkey can open up a case of catsup and toss it onto a shelf. that's the easy part. but handling the people and all the dysfunctional crap they bring into the store is very challenging. and for this i feel someone needs a little bit of higher learning to handle.
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At the time I interviewed with them at their corporate head quarters, March of 2000, one of the qualifications to be a salaried Assistant Manager was to have a Bachelor's degree. This, of course, was if you were applying fresh and had not worked your way up.
I was working a reset at a store in our area a new to kroger comanager.
The comanager was very negative about having to help with a reset during 3rd shift hours. I asked him "well, being a manager must be a positive thing, you must be doing better than the minimum wage I'm making, right?" His response was "I have a masters degree in finance and I am working at a f-ing grocery store in the middle of the night."
I was working a reset at a store in our area a new to kroger comanager.
The comanager was very negative about having to help with a reset during 3rd shift hours. I asked him "well, being a manager must be a positive thing, you must be doing better than the minimum wage I'm making, right?" His response was "I have a masters degree in finance and I am working at a f-ing grocery store in the middle of the night."
Poor guy.
Hope he enjoys his new job.
here is the problem with this and it is not the one poster but the manager working the f---ing night.
He has a problem and it is not Kroger. If he has a masters degree and is as good as he thinks he is, then why is he in a grocery store working in the middle of the night? Have seen a lot of thinks like this over the last several years and it is not just in Kroger land. There are a lot of people with high IQ`s, college education, and reasonably inelegant. They can not get a job in the field they want , their job market is closing down or companies are closing and cutting back. For some reason they are out of work and now have to look are lower paying jobs than what they was accustom to receiving. they develop an attitude and then begin to direct that bad attitude towards the ones they have to work with. It is always their fault or not done my way or I can do better than this.They are the ones that will never be happy no matter what. The ones that will suffer the most will be the ones that have to work directly with or under them. It will always be the other guys fault. They will always have the right answer and as soon as Kroger ( or any other retailer ) realizes this and pays me what I know I am worth, then I will be happy. They never are and will always bring gown the moral and attitudes of Kroger or any other employer they work for.
Yea grump I hear what you are saying and agree mostly. However I hold a bachelor's degree and I personally chose to work in the retail field over a higher class of work. I do not wish to sound "conceited" but I do feel that I personally am in the higher eschelon of the kroger workforce. I work quite hard for the pay yet I see day in, day out the typical lazyness exuded from the majority of the staff.
My point is - it really to me is these people who bring down the moral and attitudes of kroger. It is then us smaller class of true hard workers who have to endure their bad work ethics and then we somewhat fall into the "bitch and complain". Does this make sense?
I love these debates on here LOL. Good stuff
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IF YOU WANT TO BE IN MANAGEMENT, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE UNLESS YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, BUT IF YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CAN GET YOU IN,
IF YOU WANT TO BE IN MANAGEMENT, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE UNLESS YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, BUT IF YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CAN GET YOU IN,
Exactly. I had the dregree but virtually no experience in grocery retail; that's when the interview turned a 90 degree angle SOUTH~~~
-- Edited by nocturnia on Friday 24th of February 2012 03:43:12 AM
